Scottie Scheffler Dominates in Tour Championship Victory
Scottie Scheffler once again proved why he is the undisputed best golfer in the world as he completed a wire-to-wire win at the Tour Championship in Atlanta on Sunday. Scheffler caps off his historic 2024 PGA Tour season the only way he knows how: by dominating when it matters most, and it doesn't get much bigger than the Tour Championship. The victory awards Scheffler the $25-million prize purse for the week, which brings his PGA Tour winnings for the 2024 season to over $62 million, including bonuses. This puts his career earnings at over $96 million, putting him second in career earnings behind only the great Tiger Woods.
East Lake Golf Course was deemed a tough track, even for the best of the best, but Scottie Scheffler and the majority of the field, for that matter, made it look anything but difficult. Scheffler started the tournament at 10 under par since he was the FedEx Cup leader heading into the week, and then we proceeded to go 20 under par for the tournament, finishing him at 30 under. He did not shoot any score worse than a 67 in what was just an absolute clinic from one of the best ever to do it. Collin Morikawa finished in second place at 26 under par, thanks in large part to an impressive round of 63 on Friday. Morikawa managed to get the deficit down to just two strokes with 10 holes to play after back-to-back bogies from Scheffler, but then Scheffler put the hammer down with three straight birdies on the ninth, 10th, and 11th to grow the gap back to an insurmountable lead. Saihith Theegala rounded out the top three as he finished at 24 under par.
It goes without saying that this was a historic season for Scottie Sheffler. His seven PGA Tour victories this season, including the Masters, Players Championship, and Memorial Tournament, are the most in a single campaign since Tiger Woods in 2007, when he won eight events. His gold medal in the Olympics puts him at eight total wins on the season, making this the best season by a player since Tiger in 2006 when he won eight events, including six in a row. In a crazy 2024 season that had 39 events and 29 different winners, Scottie Scheffler reigned supreme. Scheffler was quoted earlier in the week calling the scoring of the Tour Championship “silly,” given that the whole season essentially comes down to one weekend where anything can happen. Still, it is clear that the most worthy player ended up victorious in the end.
